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[MarshaV]

On Dec 4, 2010, at 3:43 PM, david buchanan wrote:

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> Adrie said to Marsha:
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> Hmm, yes , i was aware of it, please keep in mind the "Timewindow" William was living in, in that time , he was far ahead of everyone, in this frame, during that time, it was all state of the art.  ...James planted the seeds , some live on , some not. The survivors are still cutting edge of insights.
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> dmb says:
> As I understand it, a lot of what James said over a hundred years ago is just now being vindicated. His notions about the stream of consciousness were directly translated from Buddhist terms AND the most advanced of today's brain scanners are proving him right. Here's a little Wikipedia on the topic...
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> Buddhism and psychology
> During the 1970s, several experimental studies suggested that Buddhist meditation could produce insights into a wide range of psychological states. Interest in the use of meditation as a means of providing insight into mind-states has recently been revived, following the increased availability of such brain-scanning technologies as fMRI and SPECT.
> Such studies are enthusiastically encouraged by the present Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, who has long expressed an interest in exploring the connection between Buddhism and science and regularly attends the Mind and Life Institute Conferences. ...
> William James often drew on Buddhist cosmology when framing perceptual concepts, such as his term "stream of consciousness," which is the literal English translation of the Pali vinnana-sota. The "stream of consciousness" is given various names throughout the many languages of Buddhadharma discourse but in English is generally known as "Mindstream". In Varieties of Religious Experience James also promoted the functional value of meditation for modern psychology. He wrote: "This is the psychology everybody will be studying twenty-five years from now."
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